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[Greybriar]

I'm happy for you, FlickJax. It's great that you were able to get what you really wanted.

[Nefaro]

Incidentally, Flick, unless you REALLY REALLY want to play an updated version of Panzer General (but really it's just Panzer General with a few updates), don't go with Panzer Korps. Cheaper to pull out your old copy of PG.

Of course, the reason they made PK was so that they could then develop and flesh out the Grand Campaigns. But those are (mostly) expansions to the main game. And again, it really depends on whether you badly want to play another two weeks of Panzer General 2012.


If you do want to play the PG game system but are kinda iffy about playing the PG missions (and extensive expansions of those missions) over again, you could do a lot worse than poke around for the Fantasy Wars/Elven Legacy series. Gorgeous fantasy game directly based on the PG game system (was originally intended to be a straighout remake/update of Fantasy General but they lost the rights to the intellectual property so just wrote a new story with new units), with something like nine or ten sequential campaigns -- you could probably find it dirt cheap, too.


(I should probably add that I am quite a slut for the PG game engine, so I impulse bought as much of the PK game modules as were available at the time. I think I only lack a couple. Never played them, but I HAVE THEM AND THEY ARE MINE AND I CAN USE THEM WHENEVER I WAAAANNNNTTT!!! Ahem. My point is that I'm not being critical above out of dislove for what the Lordz did. The other games are just much... newer.)

I would just suggest passing up Fantasy Wars/Elven Legacy for their later game, Warlock: Masters of the Arcane which is pretty much the same system in a more open Civ-like grand strategy setting.  I thought the very narrow and linear nose-leading in Fantasy Wars/EL was the bad thing about it and the devs paid attention to the feedback about having a wider sandbox to play in when they created the newest one.  Warlock fixed that right up!  And it's pretty cheap too, isn't it?  Like $20 for the main game, and regularly on sale for even less. 

[Martok]

Got more pennies for birthday than was expecting so gonna get distant worlds and both expansions.....

Sweet!  That's always a nice surprise. 


Happy Birthday, btw!  8) 

[JasonPratt]

If you do want to play the PG game system...

I would just suggest passing up Fantasy Wars/Elven Legacy for their later game, Warlock: Masters of the Arcane which is pretty much the same system in a more open Civ-like grand strategy setting.

My impression (not having played it yet although I do think I own a Steam copy) is that Warlock isn't much like the Panzer General engine per se anymore.